Habitat: The red devil will live in a habitat that will have great differences to that of the modern dingo. Over the next thousand years the world will change due to global warming and the rise in sea level due to melting ice caps. This will cause coastlines to shift and climate zone to change. The average temperature will rise up to 6 degrees Celsius. Due to this the future dingo had to adapt to its new habitat. As the sea level rise the coastline of Australia will move further inland. This will cause the destruction of the rainforests and the closed forests. Animals will have to move further inland to escape death and adapt to the different climate. Due to global warming the temperatures will also rise making Australia turn into a desert region.
As Australia becomes dryer plants with long roots like the eucalyptus will spread throughout Australia. This is because they can reach the ground water underground. Cactuses and other such desert plants will also spread because the heat does not affect them. Animals will adapt as best a possible in different ways. Some will become active at night to escape the treacherous heat of the day. Others will adapt in a way that they will not need to drink as often as in the past, like camels nowadays. Overall the animals will all become a little different to survive.
Behavioural Adaptation (1): Active at night The red devil will develop better night vision than its ancestor so it can hunt during the night. This will help the future dingo because it will not have to run during the high temperatures of the day. During the night the dingo also has more chances of catching pray because more animals will be looking for food during the safety of the night. The dark also helps to hide the red devil from predators of its own pray. This adaptation would be caused by the change of climate. Also if the temperatures are so high during the day it the future dingo would become more lazy, causing it to become more active during the cool hours of the night.
Behavioural Adaptation (2): can feed on carcases The red devil is an excellent hunter, however like all carnivores it cannot always find pray. If it cannot kill anything it can eat a carcases, provided it is not over a few days old. This is helpful for the red devil because it does not have to starve if it does not have any success over several days. This adaptation could have risen during a past drought when a lot of animals died due to dehydration and the red devil did not have the strength to hunt.
Structural Adaptation (1): small skeleton The red devil will be a lot smaller than the modern dingo. As its habitat becomes hotter and dryer the future dingo will have less water and food to live on. Therefore it will become smaller to suite this change. Also once it becomes hotter the red devil started to live underground in burrows like the rabbit, as it is cooler there. With a smaller skeleton this would be a lot easier. This adaptation was caused by the change in climate, making the future dingo change to a different type of shelter and to compromise for the loss of water and food available.
Structural Adaptation (2): large front paws The red devil has unusual front paws. They are almost twice as large as their hind paws. This is to help them dig themselves their burrow. With bigger paws they are able to remove more soil at once, making the job quicker and easier. Also the red devils front paws can turn at its wrist like a human’s. This helps it while digging and while grabbing its pray. As its pray can be large (e.g. kangaroos or wombats) or small (e.g. mice or lizards) it can be difficult to get a tight grip. This adaptation could have been caused by natural selection as animals with these characteristics had more chance of survival than others.
Physiological adaptation: can store water The red devil is one of the only animals, with the camel, which can store water. It can go for a weak without water in extreme cases. This is done by holding on to the water it drinks. The red devil’s red blood cells are an oval shape, they shrink when the red devil becomes dehydrated. This enables the blood cells to move around the body even when the blood thickens. This is helpful for the red devil because it might not find any waterholes for a long time. This adaptation could have risen when as the temperatures started to rise due to global worming and water sources started to disappear.
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Habitat:
The red devil will live in a habitat that will have great differences to that of the modern dingo. Over the next thousand years the world will change due to global warming and the rise in sea level due to melting ice caps. This will cause coastlines to shift and climate zone to change. The average temperature will rise up to 6 degrees Celsius. Due to this the future dingo had to adapt to its new habitat.
As the sea level rise the coastline of Australia will move further inland. This will cause the destruction of the rainforests and the closed forests. Animals will have to move further inland to escape death and adapt to the different climate. Due to global warming the temperatures will also rise making Australia turn into a desert region.
As Australia becomes dryer plants with long roots like the eucalyptus will spread throughout Australia. This is because they can reach the ground water underground. Cactuses and other such desert plants will also spread because the heat does not affect them.
Animals will adapt as best a possible in different ways. Some will become active at night to escape the treacherous heat of the day. Others will adapt in a way that they will not need to drink as often as in the past, like camels nowadays. Overall the animals will all become a little different to survive.
Behavioural Adaptation (1): Active at night
The red devil will develop better night vision than its ancestor so it can hunt during the night. This will help the future dingo because it will not have to run during the high temperatures of the day. During the night the dingo also has more chances of catching pray because more animals will be looking for food during the safety of the night. The dark also helps to hide the red devil from predators of its own pray. This adaptation would be caused by the change of climate. Also if the temperatures are so high during the day it the future dingo would become more lazy, causing it to become more active during the cool hours of the night.
Behavioural Adaptation (2): can feed on carcases
The red devil is an excellent hunter, however like all carnivores it cannot always find pray. If it cannot kill anything it can eat a carcases, provided it is not over a few days old. This is helpful for the red devil because it does not have to starve if it does not have any success over several days. This adaptation could have risen during a past drought when a lot of animals died due to dehydration and the red devil did not have the strength to hunt.
Structural Adaptation (1): small skeleton
The red devil will be a lot smaller than the modern dingo. As its habitat becomes hotter and dryer the future dingo will have less water and food to live on. Therefore it will become smaller to suite this change. Also once it becomes hotter the red devil started to live underground in burrows like the rabbit, as it is cooler there. With a smaller skeleton this would be a lot easier. This adaptation was caused by the change in climate, making the future dingo change to a different type of shelter and to compromise for the loss of water and food available.
Structural Adaptation (2): large front paws
The red devil has unusual front paws. They are almost twice as large as their hind paws. This is to help them dig themselves their burrow. With bigger paws they are able to remove more soil at once, making the job quicker and easier. Also the red devils front paws can turn at its wrist like a human’s. This helps it while digging and while grabbing its pray. As its pray can be large (e.g. kangaroos or wombats) or small (e.g. mice or lizards) it can be difficult to get a tight grip. This adaptation could have been caused by natural selection as animals with these characteristics had more chance of survival than others.
Physiological adaptation: can store water
The red devil is one of the only animals, with the camel, which can store water. It can go for a weak without water in extreme cases. This is done by holding on to the water it drinks. The red devil’s red blood cells are an oval shape, they shrink when the red devil becomes dehydrated. This enables the blood cells to move around the body even when the blood thickens. This is helpful for the red devil because it might not find any waterholes for a long time. This adaptation could have risen when as the temperatures started to rise due to global worming and water sources started to disappear.
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